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Survival Guide
Survival Guide on How to Make it

Through School and Life with Balance

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Melissa DiNallo

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GEN105

05/27/2013 - 07/28/2013

The fabulous Wide World Web

One of the most important rules of school, especially non-traditional schools, is the knowledge of how to navigate through the web and identify what sites are meant for education versus those meant for leisure. When I am searching the web for research I want to make sure I use creditable web pages and for this I have a rule of thumb that the best sites to use have the following URL’s: .org – organizational, .edu – educational,.mil –military,.gov – government. When I am not using these sites I will review the summary to make sure there are no signs of bias opinions as well as verify the dates are current, especially when puling information on hot topics.

University of Phoenix

One of the most amazing things I have found with the University of Phoenix (UOP) is how they truly want you to succeed and they provide you with different resources to complete your work. I found that using the Center for Writing Excellence (CWE), Grammar and Writing Guide, and Reference and Citation Generator have been very useful when it comes to my writing assignments. Another useful link in the UOP’s arsenal is there library; here you can find Peer Reviewed and non-Peer Reviewed literature. When navigating through the library you will find Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, links to Multimedia, Country Profiles and Economic Data to name a few

How personal competencies and work go together

My strongest dimension on the personality spectrum I believe is my never ending ambition to keep going; my drive is what has kept me at my current career when others have lost their jobs and has helped prove that I deserve the role I currently am carrying. This has always helped me to make an impression on employers. It helps me sit down and figure things out on my own


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